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Summer Access to the Architecture Studies Library
Paul B. Sogg Architecture Building

During the summer months, access to the Paul B.

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What's New in Special Collections: Hannah Brown Papers

Every month, Special Collections and Archives will highlight some of our newly processed collections. Here are some of the highlights for July.

Researcher Profile: Dr. Mark Bollman
Dr. Mark Bollman, Professor of Mathematics at Albion College, MI is a frequent visitor to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives where he has researched six books on gambling mathematics.

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Eadington Fellow Tim Simpson: In Residence June 11 - July 6

We are delighted to welcome our latest Eadington Fellow, Dr. Tim Simpson, to the Center for Gaming Research in Special Collections & Archives.

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"Raising the Curtain": A Large-Scale Digitization Project at UNLV Libraries by Cory Lampert, Emily Lapworth & Sarah Jones

”Publicity Photographs” ent000158-001. Jerry Jackson Papers MS-00573. 

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The Visual Art of Printing: The Curious and Their Collections (Part II) by Peter Michel

From the German Baroque to Revolutionary France, with Bill Harrah’s playing cards in between, the art of printing and printmaking has captured the eye of collectors. This Reading Room exhibit highlights the visual arts of printing from three collections representing three very different collectors: a European scholar of literature, an unknown American collector of Napoleana, and a Nevada gaming mogul.

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Six Secrets from Special Collections with Darnelle Melvin

UNLV Libraries Special Collections & Archives Metadata Librarian Darnelle Melvin.

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The Syphus-Bunker Love Letters by Angela Moor

The Mary Etta Syphus family home in Panaca, Nevada, where the packet of letters were found hidden in a wall years after the house had been abandoned.  Photo taken approximately 1973. (MS-00169) 

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Exhibit Opening: BUILT Feb. 9

Special Collections & Archives will host an opening celebration for our next exhibit, BUILT: A Photographic Survey of the Built Environment of the Las Vegas Valley, on Friday, Feb. 9 from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Goldfield Room at Lied Library.

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BUILT: A Photographic Survey of the Built Environment of the Las Vegas Valley

A new exhibit showcasing the extreme diversity of the built environment in Las Vegas is now open on the first floor of Lied Library. "BUILT: A Photographic Survey of the Built Environment of the Las Vegas Valley" features an extensive collection of photographs taken by photographer Aaron Mayes, Visual Materials Curator in Special Collections & Archives, from the Building Las Vegas project.

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Eadington Gaming Fellows Dana Herrera & Cynthia Van Gilder: In Residence Jan 3 - Jan 19
Special Collections and Archives and the Center for Gaming Research are delighted to welcome our latest Eadington Fellows, Dr. Dana Herrera and Dr.
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Special Collections and Archives Receives $100K NEH Grant to Launch Latino Voices Project
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Special Collections and Archives in the UNLV University Libraries will receive a $100,000 Humanities Access Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project to document the contributions of Latino communities to the develo

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Culinary Workers Union Collection Comes Alive Through Tech in Digital Collections Lab by Jasmin Bryant

Photographs of Frontier Victory rally , Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1998 January 31. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 Las Vegas, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH:00382)